I haven’t blogged in almost a week since I basically nailed the last four games of the NBA Finals.
I don’t know if Dan Patrick takes the week off following the NBA Finals, but Mike Jackson does just to stay mentally fresh.
This SEC story broke last week in a story from the Houston Chronicle in which a Texas A&M sypathizer made it be known the Sooners and Horns are headed for the SEC.
I’m a Sooner fan. I bleed Crimson. I went to my first Sooner game in 1965 with Bob in Norman. It was a Bedlam game actually. It turned out to be Gomer Jones’ last game as the Sooners head coach after the Sooners lost 17-16 that day and ended their year with a dismal 3-7 record. They hung Gomer in effigy from one of the windows of a nearby frat house after the loss.
Turns out a guy named Jim McKenzie became the Sooners’ next head coach and brought two assistants along with him named Chuck Fairbanks and Barry Switzer.
The rest is Sooner history/lore and I’ve been a Sooner ever since even though I never attended one single class at OU. I have two degrees from UCO and one degree from O State, but from the day Jim McKenzie’s Sooners beat Texas in 1966 I became a Sooner football crazie.
I bleed crimson.
It’s not that I disdain O State football, it’s just more of a case of indifference with me. They never did anything for me as a fan. I mean … how can you have Barry Sanders, Thurman Thomas, and Hart Lee Dykes and not beat OU one single game?
Trump doesn’t like POWs who get captured. I don’t like football teams who can’t ring the bell every now and then. At least I’m honest about it. O State never won enough for me when it mattered. I like winning..it’s fun.
So today OU and Texas made it official. They have smartened up and decided the Big 12 is long-term loser in the rapidly ever evolving landscape of college football finance.
Let’s use this poker analogy…the SEC is a full house with aces over kings while the Big 12 is a pair of jacks. Which cards are you gonna play new O State Prez Kayse Shrum? Hopefully, you answered aces over kings. I’m going to ignore some of your earlier comments from last week and assume you’re smarter than how you came across last week.
I love women. I think they’re smarter than men generally. Not even close. But you were awful with some of those statements. Instead…you should be openly challenging your head coach and fan base this is the time to step out from OU’s shadow and be great. Great setbacks are the genesis from which great accomplishments occur. Kind of like when Gomer went 3-7 in 1965.. This is that time.
OU ABSOLUTELY DID THE RIGHT THING. If they had done differently it would be fiduciary malpractice. David Boren…bless his heart—thankfully wasn’t part of this decision.
OU is a football blueblood whoch should be sitting at the opposite end of the big SEC poker table from Alabama. This is where the Sooners belong. OU is a football school of royalty. OU’s economic survival is related to its fixture as a football blueblood. OU in no way is O State’s designated hand holder or baby sitter.
Maybe if Mullet King had taken some of Boone’s savvy advice and upgraded O State’s abysmal non-conference scheduling they’d be headed for the same SEC pod as OU, Missouri, and Arkansas.
Maybe. But I’m not on here this evening to denigrate Mullet King. Boone has passed. Holder has retired. This is Mike Gundy’s moment to show if he has what it takes to lead a football program from the abyss of a $38 million cash flow shortfall to college football greatness.
Tramel wrote just a superb piece today on how this is actually a blessing in disguise for O State football if they could land in the PAC 12’s Eastern Division.
The blessing is that Mike Gundy at 1-15 versus OU minus the repunt by Big Game Bob doesn’t haven’t to coach against the Sooners ever again unless Kayse Shrum is stupid enough to make her school play the Sooners again.
President Kayse…play Texas or Auburn or maybe Michigan State, but pass on the Sooners. It’s a curse which transcends the legal tenets of cruel and unusual punishment. Don’t make Mike Gundy ever again play the Sooners.
Hold his hand and build him up.
Or maybe beat the Sooners in Stillwater on November 27th in what could be the last ever Bedlam game.
There needs to be a profound attitude change at O State in their football program regardless of which conference OU is a member. I don’t know if Boone ever did this with Gundy, but maybe this would be the time.
Winning begats confidence. Confidence begats greatness. Dream big instead of just dreaming 8-4. Dream big.